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Clarence E. Rash and William E. McLean<br />

<strong>The</strong> leading edge of the bar will appear dark grey, since the transition<br />

Figure 5.10. MTF curves for P1<br />

phosphor (Beasley et<br />

al., 1995).<br />

from white to black will be incomplete. <strong>The</strong> area behind the trailing edge<br />

suffers also. It will be a light grey due to the incomplete transition from<br />

black to white. <strong>The</strong> overall effect is that of a low-pass filter. Motion blur<br />

will result with a loss of high frequency detail. <strong>The</strong> magnitude of the effect<br />

increases with speed.<br />

Rabin and Wiley (1995) compared visual performance between CRT<br />

and liquid crystal displays for high rates of image presentations and found<br />

a significant difference, which was attributed to the display response speed.<br />

<strong>The</strong> study involved a target detection task for various horizontal target<br />

velocities presented on the IHADSS (using a P43 phosphor image source)<br />

and an AMLCD HMD developed by Honeywell, Inc., Minneapolis,<br />

Minnesota. Target recognition (contrast sensitivity) was found to be<br />

degraded for the AMLCD HMD for the three highest velocities tested (4.4-<br />

17.6 deg/sec).<br />

In conclusion, the dynamic response of a display and its interaction<br />

with other imaging system components is a critical area of concern.<br />

<strong>The</strong>refore, it is necessary to be able to measure the dynamic MTF of such<br />

systems. Current wisdom is that pixel persistence (10%) values greater

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